[MacDV] iMovie 5 woes .....

[E. Behme]

Hello y'all!

iMovie and iDVD were the main reasons for buying a new PowerBook  
15/1.67, since for  eveything else my old T400 was chugging away just  
fine .... and now this!!

I finally had overcome the audio-synch problems by extracting the  
audio before sending the finished iMovie project to iDVD. But  
yesterday, the matter became even more vexing.

The project was finished ... 72 min ... and I extracted the audio and  
saved the work. Coming back to it later, I noticed that playback had  
turned into a 1fps affair and the sound consisted of nothing but  
static ... a clicking crackling sound.
I used all possible playback settings, no avail.

Then I did a reverse and imported the iMovie file into iDVD. Same thing!

With a new setting in iMovie, which shows the frequency band of the  
sound track, I saw what seemed like regular sound files. Ergo, I  
copied a portion of it and placed it into a new iMovie project ....  
voila ... the sound was correct!!!
Whcih should mean that the data themselves are okay, which is super,  
since I would hate to have to go back and redo the entire project,  
which consisted of 4 hours of raw footage.

But what on earth can I do now, to revive the project? Would iMovie 4  
open it (I don´t have that one anymore)?

Any suggestion would be most welcome.

ciao from Berlin,

eckhard

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